Fixing God's Temple

If you have ever owed a home then you know that there is always the possibility of something breaking or malfunctioning.  It may be the furnace, the sink, the toilet the roof and the list goes on and on.  If its not one thing then its another.  Oh the joy of home ownership!   What happens when something breaks ?   We have to make a trip to the hardware store and purchase that part that we need to repair it.  With a faucet they sell these faucet kits. With a roof they sell shingles.  With a toilet they sell these toilet repair kits.   Each item requires its own little repair kit to fix it.  These repairs can be time consuming and expensive.   

What happens when your spiritual house gets broken?  Then bible says that we are the temple of the Holy Spirit.  When something breaks within us it makes it difficult for the Holy Spirit to dwell within us.   

Do you not know that you are God's temple and the God's Spirit dwells in you?  1 Cor 3:16  God who made the world and all things therein, seeing that He is Lord of Heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made with hands.  Acts 17:24 

Your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God.  You are not your own;  you were bought with a price.  So glorify God in your body.   1 Cor 6:19-20   

How do we know something is broken within us?  The Holy  Spirit will tell us.   He acts like a smoke alarm.  If the building is on fire He will sound the alarm within you.  He does this in differently in each person.   One person may feel very grieved while another person may feel feel their stomach quivering while another person may not be able to sleep at night and they just don't know why.  God has a way of getting our attention.  He knows how to bring things to the surface that we are trying to excuse and deny through our own self deception.   Sin is self deception.   But the wages of sin is death.  Sin always looks pretty and feels good and seems so right for that moment in time but wide is the road of destruction for your soul.  
For what partnership have righteousness and iniquity?   Or what fellowship has light with darkness?   What accord has Christ with Be'lial?  Or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever?   What agreement has the temple of God with idols?  For we are the temple of the LIVING GOD; as God said, I will live in them and move among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.  Therefore come out from them, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch nothing unclean; then I will welcome you, and I will be a father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.  2 Cor 6:14-18  

The Holy Spirit will fix the breaks within us if we allow Him to do the work.  He will not force Himself upon us.  We have to allow Him to fix the problem.  Some repairs will take more time than others.  If there has been a break from our childhood it takes extensive workmanship on the Holy Spirit's part.  Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, and make holiness perfect in the fear of God.  Just as you once yielded your members to impurity and to greater and greater impurity, so now yield your members to righteousness and sanctification.  Rom 6:19     Now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the return you get is sanctification and its end, eternal life.  For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.  Rom 6:22-23
May the Lord make you increase and abound in love to one another and to all men, as we do to you, so that He may establish your hearts unblamable in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.  1 Thess 3:11-13